Ah, I guess I will be late to work! I think JohninAustin really sees the light, I just think like he says, he is overly paranoid, just like many of us.
There is a contradiction here though JohninAustin. You believe your right to self-preservation supercedes other people's own right to self-preservation. Why do I say this? Well if I come over to your house, I know you are going to have guns around. Why should I leave myself defenseless against you? Why should I trust you to be reliable and safe around your own firearms in your house? What if you get a hold of a 12 gauge and suddenly its evil power takes hold of you and you decide to off the red-headed guest?
I don't think you would ever do this. However! You are not willing to trust me initially with a firearm in your home. Your distrust of me would require me to trust you. That makes no sense. I would have to trust you enough to not be armed while you are armed. You are expecting me to do the very same thing you would not do with me.
Does your contradiction make sense now? I don't necessarily blame you for your position. Everyone wants to be safe. The anti's want to be safe. They attempt to disarm everyone but the elite in an attempt to do so. When everyone is disarmed, no one except the armed are safe. So a smart politician like Diane Fientstein not only disarms everyone, she finds a loophole to arm herself. That gives her all of the power. You seek that same power with a policy of disarmament. Again, that is your right in your home, but I find it so very condradicting.
As has been said numerous times. It comes down to trust. I trust my fellow gun owners with a watchful and cautious eye. If they start to do something that is not safe, I am going to tell them about it in a very nice and compasionate way. I will make them aware of the bad things they are doing in an attempt to keep them from doing it again. I would never tell them that they must trust me when I don't trust them. I don't know if that is so much hypocritical as it is contradictory. It depends if you do it knowing you are asking them to do something you wouldn't do or if you do it because you just want to be safe and don't realize what an impossible task you are asking of them.
When I walked over to a friends house for bible study Sunday, I was armed. I walked into his house, went straight to the bedroom closet and placed the Glock on the top shelf. Is that his policy? No. I just do it because I don't need it on his living room floor. Him or his wife never say anything about it. One time I was over at a well respected friend's father's house. I was joking about something and I drew my Glock and pointed it at the wall for some reason. He being a range master chewed me out right then and there. "I deal with idiots all day long with guns. If you are going to have that keep it holstered or take it out to the car." I started thinking about that situation last night and now I feel pretty stupid about it. That was in my young days of concealed carry. It was an important lesson. He didn't implement a ban on concealed carry in his house, he simply told me the rules and expected me to abide by them.
Again this has nothing to do with property rights!!! You have the right to tell people not to bring guns to your house. There is no arguing about it, so why bother stating the obvious.
